D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrencewas an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works, among other things, represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, some of the issues Lawrence explores are emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 September 1885
humility pride conceited
We are so conceited and so unproud.
two would-be different
Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.
attitude hate dirty
The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret.
men weak-man people
Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.
gay dark blood
and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.
country men forever
Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.
men class males
How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species
thinking bombs done
I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.
sea tiny enjoy
The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea.
elephants beast mates
The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate
home evening anxious
I see a redness suddenly come Into the evening's anxious breast-- 'Tis the wound of love goes home!
way bats wavering
At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats By the Ponte Vecchio . . . Changing guard.
air bridges circles
A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches Where light pushes through; A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air. A dip to the water.
leadership pride dark
While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.